Habakkuk 2:1 · WEB

I will stand at my watch and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

Habakkuk 2:2 · WEB

Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Habakkuk 2:3 · WEB

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

Habakkuk 2:4 · WEB

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

Habakkuk 2:5 · WEB

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol; he is like death and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations and heaps to himself all peoples.

Habakkuk 2:6 · WEB

Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

Habakkuk 2:7 · WEB

Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

Habakkuk 2:8 · WEB

Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

Habakkuk 2:9 · WEB

Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

Habakkuk 2:10 · WEB

You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

Habakkuk 2:11 · WEB

For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.

Habakkuk 2:12 · WEB

Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

Habakkuk 2:13 · WEB

Behold, isn’t it from Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Habakkuk 2:14 · WEB

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Habakkuk 2:15 · WEB

“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

Habakkuk 2:16 · WEB

You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Habakkuk 2:17 · WEB

For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals will terrify you, because of men’s blood and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.

Habakkuk 2:18 · WEB

“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

Habakkuk 2:19 · WEB

Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.

Habakkuk 2:20 · WEB

But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”